Arvind Krishna

This article is about the IBM executive. For other uses, see Arvind Krishna (disambiguation).

Arvind Krishna
Krishna in 2021
Born (1962-11-23) November 23, 1962 (age 62)
West Godavari, Andhra Pradesh, India[1]
CitizenshipAmerican[2]
EducationStanes Anglo Indian School
St Joseph's Academy
Alma materIndian Institute of Technology Kanpur (BTech)
University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign (PhD)
TitleChairman & CEO, IBM
PredecessorGinni Rometty

Arvind Krishna (born November 23, 1962)[3] is an Indian-American business executive, and the chairman and CEO of IBM. He has been CEO of IBM since April 2020 and chairman since January 2021.[4][5] Krishna began his career at IBM in 1990, at its Thomas J. Watson Research Center,[6] and was promoted to senior vice president in 2015, managing IBM Cloud & Cognitive Software and IBM Research divisions. He was a principal architect of the acquisition of Red Hat, the largest acquisition in the company’s history.[7][8]

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